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Interactive Data Exploration (IDE)

Course content

The course introduces participants to visualization: use of
interactive visual representations to help people understand and
analyse data. Visualization is central to data-intensive science,
business and intelligence analysis, for exploratory data analysis
and for clearly communicating findings in data.

Participants will learn about the foundations of information
visualization and techniques for visually representing different
types of data and for supporting different tasks. Students will
learn through a practical problem-driven approach to analyze,
design, and build visualizations. In particular, through weekly
exercises, the course will provide hands-on experience with
JavaScript visualization libraries such as d3.js to create
interactive visualizations on the web.

This course partly overlaps with the Visualization course. The
main difference between the courses is that Interactive Data
Exploration places greater weight on technical challenges in
developing visualizations, with particular focus on building fully
functional, interactive visualizations for the web. These aspects
will be emphasized in the evaluation of the final project and the
oral exam of this course. Students can only take (and get
credit for) one of the two courses.